Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) Quotes

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Captain Corelli's Mandolin ended in 1970.

It features Tim Bevan as producer, Stephen Warbeck in charge of musical score, and John Toll as head of cinematography.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in France. Each episode of Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) is 129 minutes long. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) is distributed by International.

The cast includes: John Hurt as Iannis, Penélope Cruz as Pelagia, Christian Bale as Mandras, Nicolas Cage as Corelli, and Irene Papas as Drosoula.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) Quotes

Nicolas Cage as Corelli

• (Nicolas Cage) "I tried to live without you. I tried to make myself believe I could live without you."

• (Nicolas Cage) "Do you miss me?"
• (Penélope Cruz) "So much that I cant sleep at night."

• (Nicolas Cage) "I have always found something in life worth singing about and for that I cannot apologize."

• (Captain Weber) "Heil Hitler."
• (Nicolas Cage) "Heil Puccini."

• (Nicolas Cage) "The other night when you were dancing the way you were moving the turn of your head. I thought I could watch you forever."
• (Penélope Cruz) "You think you can come here and turn my whole world upside down?"

• (Nicolas Cage) "Bella bambina at two o'clock."

Penélope Cruz as Pelagia

• (Penélope Cruz) "I wrote to you every day. A hundred letters -- and not a single reply."
• (Christian Bale) "I never learned -- to read or write."

• (Penélope Cruz) "You fall in love with the person, not the body."
• (Irene Papas) "Love enters by the eyes and also leaves by the eyes."

• (Penélope Cruz) "Why did you save him? Why didn't you leave him to die?"
• (Christian Bale) "I wanted you to love me again."
• (Christian Bale) "In Albania, I made them read every one of these to me -- 'Mandras, I love you,' 'Mandras, I want you,' 'Mandras, when are you coming back?' And then one day, a different letter. 'I don't know how to describe my feelings. It's as if I have been waiting a hundred years to hear from you, waiting a hundred years for you to return. Once, my heart was overflowing with love for you, but now all I feel is emptiness. And I think it was all just a pretense, that I never loved you at all.'"

John Hurt as Iannis

• (John Hurt) "When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No -- don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is."

• (John Hurt) "Sometimes it is better to lose than to have so much blood on your hands."

• (John Hurt) "What on earth you think you are doing?"
• (Nicolas Cage) "I'm feeling the orchestra."

• (John Hurt) "Antonio, I do not know if this letter will reach you, or even if you are alive. Perhaps someone else sent your record, and that is why we found no note. I would like to say that Pelagia is happy, but she is full of tears she will not let fall, and of a grief no doctor can mend. She blames herself for the pain we have suffered, and perhaps the same is true for you. You know I am not a religious man, but I believe this: if there is a wound, we must try to heal it. If there is someone whose pain we can cure, we must search till we find them. If the gods have chosen that we should survive, it will be for a reason."

• (John Hurt) "If you love your wife, my advice is be nice to her. Bring in the wood before she asks you for it. If she is cold, then put a shawl around her shoulders.And bring her a flower every time you come back from the field."

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